Abby Williams was found dead with her friend Libby after the pair vanished

But despite managing to send images and a voice recording of the suspected killer to Snapchat before they were murdered, cops have yet to catch anyone.

And the tight-knit rural community with a population of roughly just 3,000 is now in the grip of panic, with families forced to explain to their kids that a real life Bogeyman is on the loose, news.com.au reports.

Speculation is running rife among locals and on social media about the possibility the girls were “catfished” by somebody posing as a teenager online or whether they were the random victims of a violent stranger.